Course Overview

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Course Overview
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COMPUTER FLUENCY JOURNAL

• Objective (6.3) Students will record new
  information learned throughout the course.
  Entries from the journal will be shared at the
  beginning of class as a means of review.
• Assignment steps
• You will begin a journal that tracks the progress
  of your computer fluency throughout this course.
• For each lecture, you are to enter the date and a
  fact or bit of new information that you did not
  know before entering this course. Please bring
  them to class each time we meet.
• You will create your entries using Microsoft
  Word. Use the Insert Date and Time menu option to
  track every entry. For exampleFriday, October
  29, 2005Today we discussed computer history. I
  learned that the first computer programmer was a
  woman, Ada Lovelace.

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The BasicsObjective 7.2

• Why study this course?
• http//faculty.winthrop.edu/garrisonc/CSCI101/Spri
  ng06/Slides/slides.htm
• What is a computer?

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• Computer
• Data
• Information

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• Hardware
• Software
• A computer programmer
• Users

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HistoryObjectives 7.3, 7.4, 7.5

• Early history
• Five generations
• Internet
• Personal computers

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• Charles Babbage
• Ada Lovelace
• Electronic Digital computers
• Before 1950s

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Generations
1st Generation Vacuum Tubes 2nd Generation
Transistors 3rd Generation Integrated
Circuits 4th Generation Microprocessor 5th
Generation Intelligent computers
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Internet

• Predecessor
• Dr. Tim Berners-Lee
• Marc Andreessen

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PC History

• Apple
• IBM
• Bill Gates
• Sole Source

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Assignment

• Quiz at beginning of class on week 1 material
• Write a couple sentences that describe what
  Herman Hollerith contributed to computer history
• Start Computer Fluency Journal